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[218] The τ᾽ is called a ‘gnomic’ “τε”. It may, however, be for “τοι” (cf. 170); or possibly we should read “ὅς τε” for “ὅς κε”, in which case the repeated “τε” will simply mark the correlation of the two clauses, as often in gnomic lines; v. on 81, and H. G. § 332. The αὐτοῦ at the end, however, seems so weak as to raise a more serious doubt as to the authenticity of the line, which is in itself rather flat, and precisely of the sort which would be likely to be interpolated in the age of Hesiod or the ‘seven sages’ (Döderlein conj. “αὖ τοῦ”).

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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